Negotiation and Implementation
The Department of Aboriginal Affairs and Intergovernmental Relations leads the GNWT’s participation in land, resource and self-government negotiations and coordinating the implementation of final agreements, as well as treaty land entitlement negotiations that are active within the Northwest Territories. It is responsible for representing the interests of the Government of the Northwest Territories at each table, as well as the interests of all NWT residents.
There are a number of active negotiation tables in the Northwest Territories. Each is at a different stage of progress.
- Inuvialuit Self-government
- Gwich’in Self-government
- Norman Wells Land Corporation Self-government
- Tulita Self-government
- Deline Self-Government
- Tlicho Government
- Dehcho Land, Resource and Self-government
- Katlodeeche First Nation
- Akaitcho Land, Resource and Self-government
- Akaitcho Interim Measures Agreement
- Northwest Territory Metis Nation Interim Measures Agreement
- Saskatchewan & Manitoba Denesuline
The Lands Negotiation section within the Negotiations Division provides support to all tables regarding the lands component of negotiations.
